Package for vending machines



Feb. 5, 1929.

' F. J. ROWSE PACKAGE FOR VENDING MACHINES Filed Jan. 1925 IN'SZ'ENTUE .ATIURNE'I 0 Patented Feb. 5, 1929.

FRANK J. ROWSE, OF PAW' TUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

PACKAGE FOR VENDING MACTI INES.

Application filed January 2, 1925. Serial No. 118;

in coin operated vending machines for vending small packages, one at a time, the packages are placed one on top of the other in a hopper in the machine and are fed down by gravity, as the bottom package is removed and delivered to the buyer. Such packages usually have tightly closed ends, they are generally comparatively thin in proportion to their size, and it is necessary for the delivery mechanism of the vending machine to remove the bottom package and deliver it to the purchaser without injury to the package or its contents and without disturbing or injuring the following package.

The package grasping members of such mechanisms have heretofore been constructed to have grasping members which grab over a id onto each end of the bottom package and in practice it has been found extremely diffieult to construct such a package delivery mechanism so. that it will operate to invari-i ably deliver the bottom package without d1s-.

7 novel construction of a wrapped package for vending machines, said vending machine package having details of construction, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter and claimed. 7

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved open end package for vending machines. V

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectionalview through the package, showing the open ends of the package and also showing part of the a package delivery mechanism of a package vending machine adapted to deliver my im-- proved vending machine package, and

Figure 3 is an end view of my improved package for vending machines.

In the drawing 4 indicates my improved package for vending machines and 5 part of a package delivery mechanism of a vending machine shown to illustrate the adaptability of my improved vending machine package to such vending machines.

My improved vending machine package 4 is preferably in the form of'a flat oblong package having a body portion 6, forming the package proper and which is the article to be vended, said package 4 having open ends 7, 7, which form open recesses 8, 8, in the ends of the package, as shown in Figure 2. These open ends 7, 7, are formed on the ends of the package by extending a wrapper 9 around and beyond each end of the package so as to form the recesses 8, 8, in each end of the package. The body portion 6 or article covered by the wrapper 9 mayconsist of toilet paper, paper towels or anything that would be practical to vend in a vending machine.

The part of a vending machine package consists of a rock shaft 10 to which is pivotally secured package delivery arms 11, 11. These arms 11, 11, have bent fingers 12, 12, on their ends and are operated by cams,not sh0wn,'to move the arms 11, 11, in and out from one position to the other, as shown in full lines and broken lines in Figure 2. These arms 11, 11, are nominally in an inward position with the fingers 12, 12 in the open ends 7, 7, of the package and in the position as shown in broken lines in Figure 2. The rock shaft 10 is operated by a coin controlled delivery mechanism, not shown. This delivery mechanism may be of any mechanism that will operate to move the'bent fingers 12, 12, into the recesses 8, 8, in the ends of a package, then move the package out from under a pile of such packages, then move the through the mechanism of the machine,rocks the rock shaft 5, as indicated by the arrow (1. As the fingers 12, 12, are now in the open ends of the package and against the forward inside edge of the package, the package is moved forward then out from under the next Y package, Which is now delivered by gravity,

through an opening in the front or" the machine, to the buyer.

I do not confine myself to the shape of the open end package shown, as such an open end package would necessarily. conform to the shape or the article to be vended.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new A vending machine package comprising an article to he vended and a Wrapper Wrapped around the article and extending over 0ppositely disposed ends of the article and forminn' 0 )en ockets in the ends of the acka e the ends or the article forming the bottom of the pockets and the overlapping portions of the Wrapper forming the sides of the pockets, for the purpose as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

FRANK J. ROWSE. 

